Samantha Cook is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist within the Crisis and Disaster Risk Finance team in the Finance Competitiveness and Innovations global practice where she coordinates the crisis and disaster risk management program in South Asia, the Caribbean and manages the Trust Fund for supporting disaster risk finance solutions in middle income countries financed by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs . Her role focuses on the development of integrated disaster risk financing and insurance solutions leveraging best practices in public financial management.